Re: Desi larkian need to...
One other thing.
There are two distinct situations:
One - A girl gets raped.
Two - A girl gets raped and doesn't do anything about it.
Its in the second scenario that you know there is a self-esteem problem and that a girl can help herself by becoming stronger (as Sadiyah says, education is a major factor, but not the only one, as other girls here say).
But there is nothing that a girl can do to prevent scenario one that girls are not already doing, and that hasn't been stressed by women's lib movements and organizations.
Women's lib is not going and saying - hey walk in the streets late at night, because that diminishes your chances of getting raped. It rather works the other way. Women's lib says, lets make the streets safer at night so girls dont have to worry about being raped at night. Islam was a feminist movement in a way. It worked both ways though, unlike Western women's lib. It said, lets make the streets safer at night so that if a woman has to walk at night, she can. And it also said to women and men, take responsibility and take even further steps to ensure that you wont be raped - travel with an escort at night, and don't wear anything that will bring attention to you.
Pakistanis, I would think, would be taking the Islamic approach, which actually already encompasses the Western lib approach. They're not doing a good job of it, but that's another story.